Its job postings appear to be focused on engineers in System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design, VR-Zone reports. Most of its U.S. jobs appear to be in Austin, Texas; Sunnyvale, Calif.; Boxborough, Mass.; and Fort Collins, Colo.

Our strategy is to accelerate our growth by taking advantage of our design capabilities to deliver a breadth of products that best align with broader industry shifts toward low power, emerging markets and the cloud.

That article takes that to mean a push into servers and netbooks. TechEye.net also sees the job postings pointing to folks to develop x86 and GPU software codec redesigns and a team to sort out AMD’s future server, notebook, tablet, and desktop platforms.

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That sounds a bit like the joke with the workforce that was off-shored. The work is there, just someone else would do it, cheaper.
“plans to cut its work force by 10 percent or about 1,400 people, also is hiring” – are NONE of those 1,400 people “trainable” or “re-trainable”?!

They won’t stop producing high end desktop and server CPU’s. One day I believe they will be very competitive once again to Intel. They are just taking that step back from a PR perspective, because they got a lot of flack for the recent BD release. They don’t wanna set themselves up for disappointment, because disappointment spreads virally as failure within the enthusiast community.

Once they get their 32nm and lower processes sorted out, yields fixed, and architectures optimized, they will be back in the game once again.